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How to Eat Fried Worms actor Blake Garrett has died at age 33
His mom Carol told TMZ that he died on Sunday, Feb. 8
Garrett's appearance in 2006's How to Eat Fried Worms was his first movie role
Blake Garrett, a former child actor who appeared in the 2006 movieHow to Eat Fried Worms, has died at age 33.
TMZwas first to report news of his death on Monday, Feb. 9, as his mother Carol Garrett told the outlet he died Sunday, Feb. 8, and that her family is waiting to receive autopsy results from a medical examiner in Oklahoma to determine his cause of death.
According to the outlet, Carol said Blake recently went to the emergency room in Oklahoma after he experienced intense pain and was diagnosed with shingles. Blake's mother stated that Blake has been living in Tulsa for the last three years and had embraced a sober lifestyle in recent years.
PEOPLE was unable to immediately reach Carol for confirmation.
Blake is credited with two onscreen roles as a child actor, in the 2004Barney & FriendsspecialBarney's Colorful World, Live!and as the character Plug in 2006'sHow to Eat Fried Worms, based on the 1974 children's book by Thomas Rockwell.
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How to Eat Fried Wormsfollows a child named Billy (Luke Benward) who finds himself making a bet with classroom bully Joe (Adam Hicks) that he must eat 10 worms without vomiting after starting at a new school.
"I play the bully's henchman," Blake told Oklahoma City-based newspaperThe Oklahomanin a 2006 interview when he was 13. "But everybody got along on the set."
"There were rows of bicycles, and they let me have first pick," he said of his experience on set. "There was one scene where we were riding on a gravel road and got to slide to a stop. The guys who could ride worked on that scene. They had a camera on the ground, and in one scene I slid and gravel hit the camera. They really liked that shot, and that's the one they used in the movie."
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Blake and the rest ofHow to Eat a Fried Wormschild actors — the movie also starred Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Alexander Gould, Ryan Malgarini, Ty Panitz, Philip Bolden, Andrew Gillingham, Austin Rogers, Nick Krause, Stephan Bender and Alexander Agate —won a Young Artist Awardin 2007 for Best Young Ensemble Cast in a Feature Film overNanny McPhee,Santa Clause 3: The Escape ClauseandUnaccompanied Minors.
The movie's adult cast included Tom Cavanagh, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, James Rebhorn and Andrea Martin.
Blake didn't continue with screen acting afterHow to Eat Fried Worms. At the time he spoke withThe Oklahomanabout his experience in the movie, the newspaper reporter that he was interested in playing football and wrestling.
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